The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics

Gönül Bozoğlu is a lecturer in museum and heritage studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. Gary Campbell is an Australian-based independent researcher with a primary research interest in industrial heritage, deindustrialization and the politics of memory and nostalgia. Laurajane Smith is the director of the Centre of Heritage and Museum Studies, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, the Australian National University. Christopher Whitehead is a professor of museology and dean of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University, UK.

PART I Introduction: 1.The Politics of Heritage; 2.We need a new way to talk about heritage and politics; PART II Forms of reconciliation, connection and mobilisation: 3. Heritage and/not hate; 4. The Heritage Politics of Hope; 5. Something Happened in Cowra: Comprehending the Heritage of War Commemoration Sites and Ceremonies through Stanley Cavell’s ‘Politics of Acknowledgment’; 6. From Intangible Culture Heritage to Political Symbol – A Study of Milk Tea, Emotions, and the Pan-Asian Pro-democratic Movement; 7. The Collective Impact on Heritage: Lessons from the Beirut October Uprising; 8. Cultural Heritage and Symbolic Power in Iraq’s Protest Movement; PART III Politics from below: community, local and oppositional activism: 9. Heritage as white public space; 10. The Politics of Heritage Instrumentalisation: A Comparative Study of Two Indigenous Cultural Villages in Malaysia; 11.Local Communities, Counter-Heritage, and Heritage Diversity: Experiences from Zimbabwe; 12. Preah Vihear and the Politics of Indigenous Heritage in Thailand; 13. An anarchist imagination for critical heritage studies: Prefiguring equitable and sustainable futures in crofting and beyond; PART IV Populist and authoritarian politics: 14. ‘Are you (or could you be) Indigenous?’ A Perspective from Europe; 15. Affect, Belonging and Political Uses of the Past in a Digitally Integrated Public Sphere; 16. Trumpian Populism and Coal mining Heritage in Northeastern Pennsylvania; 17. Heritage and Technocracy: The Polish “digital museum boom” and its impact on heritage practice; 18. Brumbies, settler-colonial heritage, and the Wild Horse Heritage Act (2018): the politics of feral horse management in Australia; 19. Fading Memory and Inexistent Past: the concealed heritage of Stalin’s mass repression; PART V Reconfiguring and unsettling heritage symbols: 20. Making Worlds of the Past: the interdependency of heritage representation and geopolitical entities; 21. Queering National Heritage Myths; 22. Must Gandhi also Fall? Reassembling #BlackLivesMatter’s Translocal Activism and Urban Fallist Movements; 23. ‘Am I doing it well enough?’: Roma, racialised heritage, and politics of (self-) representation in postsocialist Bulgaria; 24. Changing Approaches to Turkey’s Byzantine Heritage: The Contexts of the 10th and the 24th International Congresses of Byzantine Studies; PART VI Heritage and the negotiation of place: 25. The Heritage Politics of One Man’s Living Room; 26. “Don’t tell us we’re not Cuban!” How political nostalgia makes Miami and Miami makes nostalgia political; 27. Nation-space and the transtemporal woodlands: The politics of the past in the heritagised narratives on forests in 21st century Finland; 28. Representations and resignification of a public monument; 29. Searching for brave spaces through decolonial heritage activism; PART VII The politics of urban transformation: 30. The Gentrification of Working-Class Heritage in Lowell, Massachusetts; 31. Neoliberal times and urban heritage: sustainable preservation in the Monumenta Program in Brazil; 32. Space, Politics, Heritage: Engaging in a Political Geography of Heritagisation; 33. A Four-Hundred-Metre Walk: or how political choices may or may not transform a post-industrial landscape into a highly valuable social and ecological fabric; 34. The Battle for Belgrade’s Historic Riverfront: Citizen Resistance to Radical Urban Changes; 35. ‘Building a new world in the shell of the old’. Historic building squats and heritage commons. The case of Rosa Nera at Chania, Crete; PART VIII Heritage Policy, UNESCO and resistance: 36. Saving the World: Heritage Politics at UNESCO; 37. Dance, Moving Identities, and The Political Economy of Intangible Cultural Heritage; 38. Diplomatic heritage: The involvement of the World Monuments Fund in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Cuzco, Peru; 39. Indigenous peoples heritage and democratisation processes: from monumentalisation to participation in Peruvian cultural policy; 40. The Politics of Space Heritage: Colonising and Exploiting the Final Frontier; Index.